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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Dashed Off VII

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martyrdom as an expression of docilitas (and thus of the gifts of the Spirit) Greed is not love of gain; it is a grasping after merely ap...

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

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Introduction Opening Passage: For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers ev...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Catherine Benincasa

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Today is the feast of St. Catherine Benincasa of Siena, Doctor of the Church. The following is from a letter to Daniella of Orvieto. Sr. Da...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Greatness and Philosophy

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Gregory Lewis has a very odd guest post up at "The Daily Nous". But, on the other side, it does a good job of pulling together a ...

The Mystery, the Pang, the Passage, the Unknown

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Saint Catherine of Siena by Alice Meynell (Written for Strephon, who said that a woman must lean, or she should not have his chivalry.) ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The Concept of Perfect Love

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Daniel Howard-Snyder and Adam Green have a new article up at the SEP on divine hiddenness arguments for atheism . As these are increasingly ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Swift Joy and Tardy Sorrow

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Envoy by Francis Thompson Go, songs, for ended is our brief, sweet play; Go, children of swift joy and tardy sorrow: And some are su...
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